TY  - BOOK
AU  - Balzac,Honoré de
AU  - Wormeley,Katharine Prescott
TI  - Pierre Grassou
AV  - PQ 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - French fiction -- Translations into English
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Grassou; Release date is 2005-06-27; Produced by John Bickers, Dagny, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Pierre Grassou" by Honoré de Balzac is a short story published in 1839. It follows a mediocre painter who survives by creating imitative works that an art dealer sells as genuine masterpieces to wealthy bourgeois clients. When Pierre meets a prosperous bottle-dealer who mistakes him for a grand master, an unexpected opportunity arises. This satirical tale explores artistic mediocrity, bourgeois pretension, and the gap between commercial success and true artistic recognition in nineteenth-century French society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1230
ER  -